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Carbon Markets: an International Business Guide by Arnaud Brohé, Nick Eyre, and Nicholas Howarth. Published by Earthscan in 2009 as a “CO2 neutral book.”  Shelved at HC79.P55 B76 2009.
Everything anyone ever wanted to know about carbon markets and how they reduce greenhouse gas emissions is packed into this comprehensive work. With chapters on the Kyoto [...]

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The Presidential Pardon Power by Jeffrey Crouch. Published by University of Kansas Press in 2009.  KF9696 .C76 2009
The presidential power to pardon is granted under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution:”The President … shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.”   The [...]

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The Presidential Pardon Power by Jeffrey Crouch. Published by University of Kansas Press in 2009. KF9696 .C76 2009
The presidential power to pardon is granted under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution: “The President … shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.” [...]

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Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History by Hilary Earl. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.  KZ1179 .E36 E37 2009
Based on extensive archival research, Professor Earl offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen – the mobile security and killing units employed by the [...]

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Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame by  Zev Chafetz. Published by Bloomsbury in 2009.
 
This Hall of Fame history shows how the rules governing who can be admitted have allowed some not so great players to be admitted while excluding others with much better playing records. And since baseball writers [...]

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A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association by Andrew Koppelman with Tobias Barrington Wolff. Published by Yale University Press in 2009.
 
James Dale was active in the Boy Scouts throughout his childhood, remaining in the organization as an assistant Scoutmaster after he [...]

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A new Brief Guide to Low/No Cost Online American Legal Research has been posted in the law library’s Online Research section.

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Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music / Greg Kot. Published by Scribner in 2009.
 
Greg Kot is the music critic at the Chicago Tribune and writes a blog called “Turn It Up”–a guided tour through the worlds of pop, rock, and rap. Ripped tells how the Web popularized bands and music that would have been [...]

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The Widows’ Might: Widowhood and Gender in Early British America by Vivian Bruce Conger. Published by New York University Press in 2009.
Find at HQ1058.5 .U5 C657 2009
 
Working at a law school, it’s hard for me to imagine a time when a widow was not supposed to hire a lawyer to represent her in proving her [...]

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The Day Wall Street Exploded: a Story of America in Its First Age of Terror by Beverly Gage. Published by Oxford University Press in 2009.  Find at HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009
 
The black and white plates tell the story—cars upended, bodies covered in white sheets,  crowds milling and being restrained by police—a bomb exploded on the corner [...]

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